![]() ![]() The library opened in 1910, with Belle da Costa Greene, the African American heroine of 2022’s “The Personal Librarian,” its librarian and curator. When completed in 1906, the classic marble building cost $1.2 million (about $30 million today) and featured marble blocks cut so precisely that they did not require mortar between them. In 1902, he engaged McKim, Mead & White, renowned architects, to design a building in the same block as his home to hold his collection. In about 1890, Pierpont, as he preferred to be called, began collecting important manuscripts and works of art from around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Pierpont Morgan was a financier during the so-called “Gilded Age.” Between 18, his company organized or financed 42 major American corporations. Today, in our continuing series about New York City’s often-overlooked gems, we visit the Morgan Library & Museum, formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library, located in the Murray Hill neighborhood on Madison Avenue between 36th and 37th streets. ![]()
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